Platform, or Publisher?

Ace addresses the issue of big tech being a platform vs. publisher.

...note that these platforms are quick to ban groups like the Proud Boys even though the Proud Boys aren't hate groups routinely engaged in violence, and yet rarely ban Antifa groups, which are hate groups that routinely use these platforms to target people for violence, and to coordinate violence.

Why should Google and FaceBook and Twitter have the cover of section 230 when it's quite clear they are affirmatively bending their own rules to allow violent domestic terrorist groups to plot and scheme using their platform? They've demonstrated both the capability and desire to ban political groups for far less than what Antifa does; if they're permitting antifa to remain, why should they not be parties to a lawsuit that targets antifa for its violence? They have chosen to continue offering their services to known law-breakers, for purposes of law-breaking.

...If you have the time and personnel to ban Crowder, you have the time and personnel to ban Antifa. And if you choose not to -- then you are liable for their crimes.

...So a publisher has the right to not print people's speech if they don't like it, or find it objectionable, but they also have the responsibility of checking to see if all statements published by them are legal and true, and may face legal suit (or possibly even criminal prosecution) if they're not.

...This is just one of the incongruities that arises when a company is permitted to claim one status -- "We're speakers and you can't compel us to permit speech we disagree with!" -- for one set of circumstances but invoke an entirely contradictory status -- "We're not speakers at all!" -- for others.

It's time to resolve this.

These companies are in fact media companies -- the largest and most profitable in the world. Google makes NBC look like a corner shop.

And if they themselves are going to willingly, knowingly abandon their positions as "non-speakers" -- as bona fide neutral content platforms -- then they should join the rest of the media in being potential liable for defamation or conspiracies to commit violence that they permit their platforms to be used for.

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Michael believes this demonetizing of Steven Crowder is the most significant change in the character of the internet since YouTube first came online 14 years ago.

On YouTube, Michael Knowles reports,

YouTube Declares War On Conservatives.

I wonder how long this podcast will stay up on YouTube!

Michael believes this demonetizing of Steven Crowder is the most significant change in the character of the internet since YouTube first came online 14 years ago. This is monumental. It means none of us are safe. Coincidentally, it comes right as we head into the 2020 elections. Crowder has almost 4 million subscribers.

Michael does a beautiful job of showing clips of another YouTuber using the same words Crowder used: "queer, gay, etc." Who was it? Carlos Maza, from Leftwing website Vox.com, the man who started this whole pressure on YouTube to get Crowder demonetized for using the same words Maza used to describe himself!

YouTube picking winners and losers, based on ideology, based on opinions they agree with. It is a huge in-kind contribution to the Democratic party and YouTube does not have to disclose the amount of the contribution.

Although Big Tech is protected as platforms, they now are being publishers, even though the government gives them special protections. Michael says now is the time to say enough is enough. This has been creeping up and it is time to stop it.

Zo Rachel is Michael's guest. He points out that leftists are the ones who have created the platforms that conservatives have depended on to get their message out. We are going to have to come up with a conservative competitor and get out of "Crazy folks" back yard. Will this energize conservatives? Leftists world is imagination, not reason.

Michael notes that Big tech gets it both ways, pretending to be platforms when it suits them, then being publishers when promoting ideology. However, Michael believes this behavior by Big Tech will actually help us in 2020, when it is so clear that the culture is stacked against us and the mainstream media is so clearly stacked against us. Donald Trump does very well when he has an adversary.

Michael opens the mailbag with a question about the PRIDE movement (this being Pride month.) The whole purpose of leftist movements is to create enemies, then to create solidarity among everyone who isn't the enemy.

We have a bizarre belief that the purpose of life is to feel happy all the time. We all have to endure suffering at some time in our lives.